2. Rahm Emanuel’s brother will not kill Sarah Palin’s baby. While this will require us to gut HR 3200 “America’s Health Choices and Murder Sarah Palin’s Baby Act of 2009,” we’re currently working with Henry Waxman to remove the extensive Sarah Palin’s baby-killing provisions from the final bill. While this will probably cost us Andrew Sullivan’s support, we recognize that this is a necessary sacrifice for securing broad bipartisan support of health care reform.
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(who normally is such an unbiased middle of the road journalist… GAG ME) said “meaningful healthcare reform is dead for this administration”.
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p>I am all for overhauling our healthcare system to include the 11 million AMERICANS who need healthcare as well as fixing the existing system that services the rest of us. We need a database system to track all our care which can be accessed by all our doctors. We need some competition so getting a physical or getting medical care is truly competitive (like cosmetic surgery is now) b maybe connecting the “co-pay” amount to the total bill. We need more doctors so it doesn’t take 2 or 3 months to see certain specialists and we need to build more Health Centers complete with some level of Emergency room treatment (but not at Emergency room prices) but we don’t need a lot of the other crap Obama and the Dems have put in this bill. Address the issues I mentioned this year and then we can revisit Healthcare in another few years.
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Are you inventing the 11 million AMERICANS figure?
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p>There are over 45 million uninsured residents of the United States. About 80% (36 million) of the uninsured are AMERICANS (native-born or naturalized. About 8 million of the 45 million are children.
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p>Can you be more specific about the “other crap” you don’t think should be included in a 2009 health reform bill? You are opposed to the cost cutting measures or to the revenue raising provisions or both?
…there may be the beginnings of a blueprint in there of how to manage the town meeting astroturf thug problem.
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p>Since the straw man they are fighting is a system that was never proposed by anyone, nothing they claim about the current reform effort is true.
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p>Instead of saying “there’s nothing in the proposal about killing your grandmother”, say “If we eliminated that part of the plan, would you support it?”; that might be more difficult to answer.
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p>A wise blogger (disclosure: my brother) suggested meeting organizers be prepared to play a recording of the national anthem every time the crowd threatens to get out of hand, and do it until they shut up or risk being seen on YouTube looking like unpatriotic bullies.
That is exactly the strategy used by “revolutionaries” against the “oppressors” in one of his novels. They stood on the street barricades waving flags and singing the national anthem. The “oppressors” (police reporting to the corrupt city government) decide that revolutionaries aren’t likely to wave the flag and sing the anthem of a state they wish to bring down, and so the people in question must be loyal citizens. They are, of course, wrong — that’s what makes the scene so hilarious.
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p>I think your approach is sound, I like it.